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...Necessary Liquid Courage" (Opinion, Feb. 3), Melissa Rose Langsam makes some comments on drinking that are quite erroneous. Her premise for the reason why Harvard students, specifically first-years, drink is that they are so unhappy here that they have no other outlet for their built-up frustrations. While this may be true for her, it seems unlikely that this assumption is universal within the College...
Melissa Rose Langsam '00 is a Crimson editor and a Near Eastern languages and civilizations concentrator. She lives in Kirkland House...
Melissa R. Langsam blames Harvard's lack of a dating scene on the over-liberalization of its students (Opinion, Jan. 9). She claims that a move back to "old fashioned lovin'"--specifically men asking out the girls and, while they're at it, paying for them--would remedy much of the problem...
Everyone here would love for happiness to sail into their lives, open the door for them and pay for their dinner. But these desires are as realistic as the June Cleaver value system Langsam dangles in front of women's eyes. A magical date is being with a charming, wonderful person. Being paid for and driven is going out to dinner with your family...
Melissa R. Langsam's commentary "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" (Jan. 9) advises men who wish to be gentlemanly to "walk on the street side of the sidewalk." This tip captures an ideal of the past--but only in form, not in spirit. Years ago, careening carriages and muddy streets threatened the pedestrian who walked on the street side of the sidewalk. Today, as some etiquette guides point out, the more immediate threat for female pedestrians often comes from dark alleyways on the "woman's" half of the sidewalk. EMILY R. SADIGH...